The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
-Four Negroes Attack Two White Men
Confined in the Same Cell with
Them and Rob Them of Considerable
Money-A Child's Narrow Escape
from Being Killed by Train.
GEORGIA
Rice birds sell for zoe dozen at Darier.
A new morning paper is to be started at
Macon.
The steamer Tar Heel will soon take her
place on the route between Barfen and Haw-
kinsville.
1t is thought that Broughton Island will
send about 20 900 bushels of rice to market
this year.
Darien has no use for a sanitary commits
sion this season. as the town has been per-
fectly healthy all summer.
DIR. V. H Taliaferro, of Atlanta, died at
Tate Spring, Tenn, Saturday afternoon.
He had been in bad health some months but
his death was not expected.
The first carload of marble ever sent out
of Floyd county was shipped Saturday. II
was sent by the Atlanta Marble Company
10 Marietta, where it will be dressed and
made ready to place on exhibition at the
Piedmont Exposition.
Nat Brown, Jr., a negro living on the
Frank Dunbar place, near Corinth, became
violently insane a week or so ago, and in
one of his widest paroxysms, on Thursday
last, killed his grandmother. He has been
sent to the asylum at Milledgeville.
Jack Tullis brought into Americus Satur-
day several bundles of fodder that were
pulled and cured in 1852-thirty five years
ago Notwithstanding its age it was as
ox,I 10 II bo1 hut y.apa,1tlxy
been gathered. 1t will be sent to the State
Fair along with the other farm products of
that section that will make up the county
exhibit.
Isaac Weatherby and DIR. W. f. Rob
ertson have been for some time securing
land in the immediate vicinity of Buch-
anan with the view of forming a company
for the development of the mineral inter
est of that section. They have secured
deeds to 1900 acres of land, most of which
has been sufficiently developed to place it
beyond doubt that an abundance Of iron
ore of good quality can be had besides fine
prospects for gold, silver, "copper" plum
bago, etc. They will have fine lot of
samples of ore, and a map of the district
on exhibition at the Piedmont Exposition.
An Americas widower indited tender
epistle to his lady love at Lumpkin last
Friday. At the same time he wrote out an
order for u bill of lumber, which was in
tended to have been sent to a saw mill man
at Andersonv,iSe. III his hurry he, of course,
got the letters add essed wrong, and the
l4umpkin lady received an order for bill
of lumber, while the saw mill man received
a perfumed billet-doux, the contents of
which he enjoyed hugely Both letters
were returned to the sender and nothing
will induce him to believe but that the
post Office officials are determined TO blast
ibis matrimonial hopes and ruin his business
as well, by missending his correspondence.
Saturday the Governor of Alabama sent
a requisition to Gov. Gordon for Munro
johnson, alias Munro jackson, who has
been under arrest in Atlanta for several
days. johnson some time ago killed Mrs.
Jack Foster, near Leeds, in Alabama The
murder was one of the most atrocious and
diabolical ever COMM ted in Alabama, and
1T is likely that johnson will pay the ex-
IRENE penalty of the law for his crime.
His accomplce in the murder was killed
some time ago, while trying to escape ar
rest. The Alabama requisition was honored
at the executive department, and the neces-
sary papers by which johnson was turned
over to the agent of Alabama were made
out.
The Staunton Life Insurance Company,
of Virginia, that was debarred from doing
business in Georgia some months ago by the
Comptroller General because of its failure
to comply with the law regulating insurance
companies, was successful few days since
in getting resolution passed by the Gen
eral Assembly relieving the company from
its disabilities, and giving it the right to re-
enter the State upon properly complying
with the laws of the State. The company
made the proper application Saturday to
the Comptroller General, and upon the pay
anent of the license and fees required by law
the regular authorized permit was granted
the m haoiu ht,sinacs in, Eant.rr;o
once more.
John jackson, a negro, was shot and kill
ed by an unknown murderer at Albany Fri
day night. Dan Gary, a witness to the
shooting, was within twenty yards of the
party that fired the fatal shot, but he could
not distinguish who il was, or whether it
was white man or negro. Two mon
were arrested and brought before the wit
nesses, but could not be identified as the
parties who perpetrated the wanton murder.
One was a white man named Bailey, from
about Montezuma but had recently been
working at a mill on the Brunswick and
Western Railroad. The other was a negro
named Startling Taylor, a well-known far
1ner of Baker County, who was at the depot
FOR the purpose ofgoing to Poulan to bring
back a runaway son. The evidence adj
duced threw no light on the mystery.
Saturday afternoon as the fast train
neared Crawfordville, a negro passenger
stumbled out of the colored coach in half
drunken condition and while the train was
still moving rapidly, attempted to get off.
He was too drunk to make the leap safely,
and swung around between the two coaches
and was hanging by one hand with his feet
on the rails when Ike Shepard, an employee
OF the road, saw the mans peril and went
to his rescue, quickly dragging him away
from the wheels. The mans feet had
touched the wheel, and his narrow escape
from death thoroughly sobered him. This
is the fifth person Mr.. Shepard has saved
from death during the twelve months he has
been on the road. One of his last heroic
acts was the rescuing of a small boy at Nor
wood from death beneath his train. Two of
the instances of heroism displayed by Mr..
Shepard were at great risk to life and limb.
At Atlanta, Saturday, the question of
the value of the State road, including the
Tennessee property, came up in party of
Representatives. Hon. r. f. Watts, of
Stewart was present, and as it was known
he has been making careful study of the
question, having visited Chattanooga and
examined the Tennessee property, he was
put on the stand and pumped. He is a gen
tleman of intelligence and decided convic-
tons, and expressed the opinion with con-
fdence that the Western and Atlantic rail
road property is worth clear $4,000, 900.